Group Of Seven Flashcards
Tom Tomson
He created a lot of small sketches and paintings on rectangular panels because they were easy to carry while hiking in Algonquin Park.
•Eventually, these sketches were made in to larger oil paintings
•He made his own colours by mixing them, coming up with colours that you could not purchase at a store.
Franklin Carmichael
•He started off painting with oil paints, but then began watercolour paintings.
A.Y. Jackson
- “Alexander Young”
- After being wounded in action during World War I, he served as a “War artist”
- (WWI 1914-1918)
Frank H. Johnston
H = Hans
•Liked to go on painting trips to Algoma.
•He didn’t stay in the Group of 7 for very long
J.E.H. MacDonald
•J.E.H. Stands for James Edward Harvey.
father figure of the group (helped and guided others to improve their paintings, founding father)
Lawren Harris
- He was very wealthy, as a heir to a farm machinery fortune, and helped the group with his fortunes.
- Travelled ALL of the Great Lakes regions, and to many of the provincial parks in Canada, which lead him to paint a lot of mountains.
When did the group form?
1920
Where did most of them meet?
Grip Ltd. design firm
Who does before the group officially formed and how?
Tom Tomson. He died on a coma owing trip, but he did not drown rather struck in the head at Algonquin park
Jack pine
Tom Tomson
First snow algoma
A.Y. Jackson
For what
Fredrick Varley
Rain in the Mountains
J.E.H. MacDonald
North Shore (Lake Superior/Old Stump)
Lawren Harris
Fire swept algoma
Frank Johnston
Lone lake
Franklin Carmichael
who were added to the group later on
lawren harris
A.Y. Jackson
how did A.Y get his big break
his friend Lawren Harris bout his painting “the edge of the maple wood” and he got his big break
why was arthur lismer made a companion to the order of canada?
he started a children’s art program at the A.G.O and set up school programs in Africa
